The Power of Visualization: Peace of Mind is an Image Away, Part I
This is Part I of a six part blog.
Some of you may be thinking as you start to read this: “I’m not so sure that I can visualize very well.” But if I were to ask you what your bedroom looks like, your living room, or a loved one, I am sure that you can easily bring a picture to mind as to what they look like. And by doing so, you have successfully visualized. This is all that visualization really is; we all have the inherent ability to visualize, the ability to imagine.
My goal in these series of blog entries is to teach you or remind you again how important it is to know how to consciously visualize or “space out.” It is actually a gift for an adult to know how to “space out.” Of course, I do not mean all the time, but at least some of the time. Actually we all “space out.” We are constantly, whether we realize it or not, visualizing or imagining or spacing out on something.
So, I would like to teach you how to consciously and positively visualize or imagine; and, also, I would like to teach you why doing it regularly and consciously is so important.
Again, we all visualize all the time. But mostly we “awfulize” or “catastrophize” – in other words we imagine the worst. We worry and worry is just negative imagining or anticipating the worst. And by doing so, we create that which we worry about and draw into our lives that which we do not want.
This is Part I of a six part blog. See my 12/13 blog post for Part II